For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.

I say, too, with education, America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they are deserving. Teachers needed to be paid more.

They [U.S. soldiers] are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan.

This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America. Our opponent is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country. Americans need to know this.

I would have waived the Jones Act, and some unions not might not like it, not union membership, but the union leaders, too many, who are thugs.

We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.

They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.